We knew in 2011 Putin would attack Ukraine, says Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton speaking at a Jewish community centre in New York where he revealed Putin’s remarks to him about Ukraine. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Vladimir Putin told Bill Clinton three years before his 2014 attack on Ukraine that he was not bound by the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing the country’s territorial integrity, according to the former US president.

The revelation raises questions about whether the US and its European allies should have been more prepared for the 2014 attack, when Russia annexed Crimea and attacked the Donbas.